MOVING FORWARD:

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MOVING FORWARD

• STATEWIDE PROGRESS OF MOFAS GRANTEES

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Overview

• Building Capacity
• Leveraging Resources
• Regional Community Networks (RCNs)
  Collaboration
• Year 2 Quarterly Report Forms

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Statewide Grantee Progress

• A main purpose of the MOFAS Community Grants
  program is to help RCNs leverage their resources
  and build their capacity to collaborate so that
  they can implement culturally competent, FASD
  prevention, intervention, and support activities
  and services in a more coordinated and
  comprehensive fashion. The end goal is a
  sustainable network of FASD services in each
  funded region that will continue beyond the
  window of MOFAS Community Grant funding

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Building Capacity

• Building knowledge and skills, particularly of
  first-points-of-contact
• Training for professionals and lay people
  involved with persons with FASD and their
  families

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Activity Highlights
Activities reached a total of 7,208 people
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Highlights Contd
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Building Capacity

• Strengthening the ability of professionals and
  lay persons to work together
• Building relationships and communication channels
  
• Achieving greater consensus on (and more
  consistent implementation of) best practices for
  prevention, assessment and support

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Grantee Interview Highlights Collaboration

• Each grantee RCN functions differently
• RCN member collaboration is limited
• Caveat Form / Nature was not specified for
  grantees

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Grantee Interview Highlights Sustainability

• Plans are not clearly delineated for most in
  this early stage
• Education of professionals and laypersons is
  primary focus important first step
• Theory of change is unspecified -- no matter
  what approach, think about how the activity is a
  step toward making sustainable change

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Leveraging Resources

• Achieving greater economy of scale in planning
  and implementing prevention, intervention and
  support activities
• Sharing information, knowledge, tools, and
  resources for common goals
• Helping existing programs or networks leverage
  their resources to conduct needed activities

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Activity Highlights

• Total of activity hours 168.5

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Activity Highlights
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Grantee Interview Highlights Leveraging Resources

• A key strategy of this initiative is to
  bring the right people to the table. Grants are
  expected to assess the capacity of existing
  agencies to address FASD, and to recruit
  membership based both on the strengths and the
  needs within their region. Grants should seek to
  build or expand their RCN to include
  professionals or laypersons that represent a
  variety of sectors, have a history of working
  within the field of FASD, have available
  resources and influence within the region, and
  have a history of collaboration.

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Statewide Look at RCN Composition
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Regional Community Networks (RCNs)
Collaboration

• Involve groups of partnering agencies and
  organizations that include representation from
  various sectors
• Build regional capacity based on existing
  infrastructure as this represents the best way to
  sustain efforts over time

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Grantee Interview Highlights RCNs

• RCN memberships are formative and still emerging
• Membership from a variety of sectors /
  influential persons
• Most RCNs are addressing a full range of FASD
  workprevention, intervention, identification,
  diagnosis and support
• Grantees visions for their RCNs appear to be on
  the right track and their progress after six
  months of funding is good

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RCN Highlights Contd

• Collaboration 1) the form / nature is not
  specified for grantees 2) RCN member
  collaboration is limited
• Some grantees are using a silo approach to
  member involvement and others are actively
  linking members together
• Sustainability 1) plans not clearly delineated
  2) education is primary focus 3) theory of
  change is unspecified -- How is the activity a
  step toward making sustainable change?

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Statewide Progress

• Grantees visions for their RCNs appear to be on
  the right track and their progress after six
  months of funding is good

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Revised 2007 Quarterly Report Forms

• Activity Log
• Network Member Form
• Narrative
• Work Plan Progress Table